Proud member of: North Carolina Federation of Historical Societies and
the Kinston Chamber of Commerce

The Historical Preservation Group is a diverse
group of individuals that came together with a common interest and passion
for the preservation of our history. With the financial help of Civil War
Preservation Trust and several private individuals, the Historical
Preservation Group received their non-profit status June 2002.

Left
Picture: Harriet's Chapel Site - Used as a defenses position by Confederates and after battle uses as a
field hospital by the
Union Army.

Center Picture: Memorial Site here Union forces first broke through the Confederate lines

Right Picture: Starr's Battery Site
with a boardwalkleading to artillery position of Capt. J.
Starr

Ed Bearss, historian emeritus of the
National Park Service, is the most well known battlefield
guide in
America and leads military history tours year-around of the Civil War,
American Revolution,
American West, and World War I and World War II in
Europe. He is acclaimed as one of the stars
of Ken Burns's award-winning
PBS series, The Civil War. In 1956, he helped locate and raise
the
ironclad gunboat Cairo, one of the most significant
artifacts of the Civil War. He is the author of
several books including
Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and the Salvage of the Cairo;
and, with
James McPherson, Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the
Civil War.